Abstract: Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.

Abstract: Methods of controlling a computing system based on wiggling and/or other types of continuous multidirectional gesturing. In some embodiments, the methods monitor user gesturing for the occurrence of a recognizable item-action gesture that a user has made without having provided any other input to the computing system and then take one or more actions in response to recognizing the item-action gesture. In some embodiments, the actions include identifying one or more on-display item underlying the item-action gesture, duplicating the identified item(s) to one or more target locations, and adding one or more visual indicia to the identified on-display item(s), among other things In some embodiments, a user can append an item-action gesture with one or more action extensions that each cause the computing system to take one or more additional actions concerning the identified on-display item(s). Software for performing one or more of the disclosed methodologies is also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.

Abstract: Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.

Abstract: Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.

Abstract: Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.

Abstract: Systems and methods for railway asset management. The methods comprise: using a virtual reality device to recognize and collect real world information about railway assets located in a railyard; and using the real world information to (i) associate a railway asset to a data collection unit, (ii) provide an individual with an augmented reality experience associated with the railyard and/or (iii) facilitate automated railyard management tasks.

Abstract: A software tool and method is provided in which a user can ask questions about their computer programs. As the subject program is executed, information is collected about the units of code that are executed and the changes to data. The user can pause the program, for example by pressing a button labeled “Why”, which will prompt the user to select what they want to ask about. For example, the user can ask about why units of code did or did not get executed. The tool and method provide answers that can be in the form of prepared statements and interactive data and control flow visualizations that show the values of data and the particular units of code that caused the execution to occur or not occur. The user can ask further questions using the visualization.

Abstract: A new unistroke text entry method for handheld or wearable devices is designed to provide high accuracy and stability of motion. The user makes characters by traversing the edges and diagonals of a geometric pattern, e.g. a square, imposed over the usual text input area. Gesture recognition is accomplished not through pattern recognition but through the sequence of corners that are hit. This means that the full stroke path is unimportant and the recognition is highly deterministic, enabling better accuracy than other gestural alphabets. This input technique works well using a template with a square hole placed over a touch-sensitive surface, such as on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and with a square boundary surrounding a joystick, which might be used on a cell-phone or game controller. Another feature of the input technique is that capital letters are made by ending the stroke in a particular corner, rather than through a mode change as in other gestural input techniques.

Abstract: A new unistroke text entry method for handheld or wearable devices is designed to provide high accuracy and stability of motion. The user makes characters by traversing the edges and diagonals of a geometric pattern, e.g. a square, imposed over the usual text input area. Gesture recognition is accomplished not through pattern recognition but through the sequence of corners that are hit. This means that the full stroke path is unimportant and the recognition is highly deterministic, enabling better accuracy than other gestural alphabets. This input technique works well using a template with a square hole placed over a touch-sensitive surface, such as on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and with a square boundary surrounding a joystick, which might be used on a cell-phone or game controller. Another feature of the input technique is that capital letters are made by ending the stroke in a particular corner, rather than through a mode change as in other gestural input techniques.

Abstract: A system and method to automatically produce a display chart from example graphics and data values. New or existing example graphics are drawn with a programmable data processing system, and the drawn graphical elements within the chart are identified. A data value is then associated with at least one of the graphical elements, and a list of heuristics are applied to determine the visualization characteristics for the graphical elements. The display chart is then produced incorporating the visualization characteristics for the graphical elements.